Historic Cemetery at Tubberneering
Tubberneering Cemetery is a small but historically significant burial ground situated between Ballyoughter and Clough. Although no church ruins are known within the graveyard, the site is notable for its distinctive D-shaped enclosure, formed by a straight stone-clad earthen bank along the north-west roadside and a curved bank around the remainder of the site. Its headstones preserve the names of many local families, making it an important place of memory for the surrounding townlands.
The cemetery also connects local history with wider national and international stories. A historic photograph in the Lawrence Collection records the site as it appeared in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, while the grave of Rifleman John Pierce links Tubberneering with Irish emigration, New Zealand military service and the losses of the First World War.
North Wexford Historical Society has recorded a large number of headstones in Tubberneering Cemetery. These records are a valuable resource for anyone researching local families, burial places or the history of the wider Ballyoughter area.
Directions to Tubberneering Cemetery
Tubberneering Cemetery is located roughly halfway between Clough (Clogh) and Ballyoughter in North County Wexford, sitting along the local L1028 road in the townland of Toberanierin Lower.
Image Gallery
The gallery below gives a visual tour of Tubberneering Cemetery, beginning on the east side facing the entrance gate and then moving across the graveyard from the north-west towards the south-east.
Tubberneering Cemetery in the Lawrence Photograph Collection
Tubberneering Cemetery also appears in the Lawrence Photograph Collection, one of the most important photographic records of Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The image, held by the National Library of Ireland, was taken sometime between c. 1865 and 1914 and provides a rare historic view of the cemetery and its surroundings.
Rifleman John Pierce and World War I
Among those buried at Tubberneering is Rifleman John Pierce, who was born at Ballycale, Gorey, on 9 May 1887. Like many Irish people of his generation, his life story reached far beyond his home parish. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War and died on 19 July 1916 from wounds received in action on the Somme. His grave in Tubberneering links this quiet local cemetery with the wider history of Irish emigration, wartime service and loss.
